I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good
Jul. 25th, 2011 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_terryDear friends,
He's beginning to allow me out of his rooms more during the day, so I'm starting to explore a bit.
This place is called Lincoln Castle, but that's sort of misleading, because it's not just one building. There's a large wall, where you can walk along the top, and it's built in a circle. Parts of it area really old, but there are other, more modern buildings in the center. The main entrance is the East gate, and near to that at the corner is the Observatory Tower, which is the highest point along the wall. It has a real good view from there of the nearby Cathedral. On the other side of the East gate is Cobb Hall, which is whereMa the git spends part of his days. It was built in about the 13th century. They used to hang prisoners from the top of the tower. The first floor of Cobb Tower is an oubliette where they used to throw prisoners down, which doesn't have any other entrance than the trap door at the top. Well, they're still throwing prisoners down there, really, because that's where he stashes them when he's working on dark magic. It's old, like I said, but he's fixed up the second floor with magic, with narrow glass windows installed where it used to be only arrow slits, and tapestries on the wall. He doesn't have me stay in the room when he's working in there with the prisoners, but in a corner just outside the door, or sometimes he'll let me walk along outside on the wall walk, looking over the street below.
Like I said before, our rooms are in the Victorian Prison building. That's one of the 19th century buildings inside the wall. There's also the Georgian Prison building beside it. That has this really creepy chapel where they used to make the prisoners listen to sermons. (They had it built with these box seats where the prisoners sat, and the box walls were built so high that the prisoners could only see the preacher way up in the pulpit, and not each other. Almost like coffins.) Built into the South Wall is the Lucy Tower. The prisoner graveyard is there. Back by the West Gate is the Crown Court building. The muggles were still using it for their legal system when the Protectorate took over. It's abandoned now, and all the windows are broken.
I wondered if the work here was being done by house elves, but I don't think so. Besides the prisoners, there are a few other people here, I think, although I've only spied a couple of them. I guess they have to have some people to do stuff needed to keep the prisoners, like fix their food, clean the latrines and so on. And look after the git and me. I'm not quite sure if they're muggles or muggleborns. There's a woman who brings the food for us, lays the fires, brings the wash water and so on. Haven't talked to her, but she smiled at me a little the other morning, and whispered that her name was Melli. She has the oddest silver eyes. And I saw a boy about my age through the window, out burning garbage in a bin in the courtyard. I looked out there because someone was calling for him from the kitchens, his name I guess. It's an odd one, or at any rate, it sounded odd. Something like 'Dudders.'
That's about all the news I guess.
He's beginning to allow me out of his rooms more during the day, so I'm starting to explore a bit.
This place is called Lincoln Castle, but that's sort of misleading, because it's not just one building. There's a large wall, where you can walk along the top, and it's built in a circle. Parts of it area really old, but there are other, more modern buildings in the center. The main entrance is the East gate, and near to that at the corner is the Observatory Tower, which is the highest point along the wall. It has a real good view from there of the nearby Cathedral. On the other side of the East gate is Cobb Hall, which is where
Like I said before, our rooms are in the Victorian Prison building. That's one of the 19th century buildings inside the wall. There's also the Georgian Prison building beside it. That has this really creepy chapel where they used to make the prisoners listen to sermons. (They had it built with these box seats where the prisoners sat, and the box walls were built so high that the prisoners could only see the preacher way up in the pulpit, and not each other. Almost like coffins.) Built into the South Wall is the Lucy Tower. The prisoner graveyard is there. Back by the West Gate is the Crown Court building. The muggles were still using it for their legal system when the Protectorate took over. It's abandoned now, and all the windows are broken.
I wondered if the work here was being done by house elves, but I don't think so. Besides the prisoners, there are a few other people here, I think, although I've only spied a couple of them. I guess they have to have some people to do stuff needed to keep the prisoners, like fix their food, clean the latrines and so on. And look after the git and me. I'm not quite sure if they're muggles or muggleborns. There's a woman who brings the food for us, lays the fires, brings the wash water and so on. Haven't talked to her, but she smiled at me a little the other morning, and whispered that her name was Melli. She has the oddest silver eyes. And I saw a boy about my age through the window, out burning garbage in a bin in the courtyard. I looked out there because someone was calling for him from the kitchens, his name I guess. It's an odd one, or at any rate, it sounded odd. Something like 'Dudders.'
That's about all the news I guess.
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Date: 2011-07-26 01:39 am (UTC)How many people is Carrow killing? I mean, in a day, or in a week. Approximately.
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Date: 2011-07-26 02:27 am (UTC)It's not always very clear to me, because I don't see how many prisoners are delivered to the oubliette, or when they're taken out. And whether they're dead or alive when they're taken out.
But I think about eight or nine have died since we've arrived here.